Actually it is “He was such a sweet boy, I can’t believe he turned into a banger.”
Gangs provide what their mothers did not.
what the heck is it that happens to so many adolescents once they get to that age? middle school age? i went to elementary school with all three races mixed, so had a good group of friends of the three mixed races... we get to Junior High school, and suddenly the races and different ethnicities group together... i did not get it... i did not drop my friends who were black and Asian and “white,” to only hang around Mexican-Americans... but a lot of them dropped me and began identifying with their groups in how they spoke and dressed... no way in hell were my parents going to allow me to dress and act the way many of my grade school friends began acting and dressing...